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I received the followinng email from Peter Dalmaris:

Today I feel particularly excited to announce that I have just published my new course!

Arduino Step by Step 2017 Getting Started

I have designed the new course especially for people new to the Arduino, electronics, and programming.

While the original Arduino ...

Received this Learning Lab Kit on a Shield for Arduino from Programming Electronics Academy today and am very pleased.  

The Learning Lab Kit on a Shield for Arduino is meant to help you save time – it basically pre-populates common circuits for you.

Circuits that you might already have learned quite ...

I received a message on twitter asking if I knew how to test if a GSM Sim900 module was working.  I have not worked with that module hands on but did recall a great write up on it from a trusted source, John Boxall of http://tronixstuff.com. I learned ...

Here is a shield for Arduino that makes adding quality sound to your products easy.

It can play up to 22KHz, 12bit uncompressed audio files of any length. 

It's low cost, available as an easy-to-make kit. 

It has an onboard DAC, filter and op-amp for high quality output. 

Audio ...

TheLCD Button Shield from Sparkfun Electronics provides a 16x2 LCD screens along with a keypad consisting of 5 keys — select, up, right, down and left. With this shield you will be able to move through menus and make selections straight from one board attached to your Arduino without requiring ...

After reading up on Project #21: Creating an LED Matrix in The Arduino Workshop I set out to find a 8x8 common cathode led matrix.  I saw this MAX7219 8X8 Red Dot LED Matrix on Amazon and while I was looking to experiment with using two 74HC595's to control ...

I stumbled across this while looking for a low cost portable kbd/mouse/display option for my Raspberry pi. Thought you would find it interesting

I like what they have done but would want to have access to the GPIO header and camera port.

Using the Pi 2 as a ...